Over the last two weeks
I've spent quite a lot of time (and money) working on a new
series of geocaches which will lead people on a walk around
Bethersden. With everything finally organised the plan was to
actually hide the sandwich boxes today. But the weather forecast
wasn't good, and I woke at 6am to the sound of torrential rain. For
all that my walk is a pleasant one, there is one stretch where (for
several hundred yards) one has a choice of walking on a ploughed
field or in grass higher than my dog is tall. Either way, after last
night's rain neither would be fun. And there are quite a few other
places where we'd get wet and mucky. And the stiles would be
slippery. The geo-feds have told me that I have first dibs on my
chosen locations for three months so I decided to conceal tupperware
another time, rolled over and went back to sleep.
I finally emerged from my
pit shortly after 8.15am when my back hurt too much to lie in bed any
more. It is a long time siince I've lain in bed long enough to get
backache.
Ove brekkie I checked out
cyber-space. On the last two days I've had something of a
retrospective. Today "er indoors TM"
was having one. Three years ago we went to Deal and did a wonderul
GPS adventure game based on "Dungeons
and Dragons". There were some photos of the day; didn't
I look thin!
Dungeons and Dragons - a
knight's quest. I could make a Wherigo based on that.
I also reflected on other
old times; "er indoors TM" had
found photos
of our old house. The place was changed somewhat in the twenty
four years since we moved out. It has been bought by a property
developer and is now up for rent. Over seven hundred quid per month
for a two-bed terraced house !!!
As I scoffed my toast
"Furry Face TM" jumped up, wiggled
himself into place next to me and went to sleep. I then didn't really
dare move; not wanting to disturb him until he woke up. It was as
well that he slept. If awake he's only have been whinging to go for
our morning walk. I'd planned a walk but didn't want to do it until
the rain stopped.
Eventually the rain did
abate, and we went for a little walk. We set off along the back roads
heading south where we spent five minutes standing by a dog poo bin
watching a juggernaut getting itself wedged morwe and more into a
narrow cul-de-sac. As we watched so an old woman brought her dog to
the poo bin to have its dump. I pointed out that the poo was supposed
to go in the bin, not just in its general vicinity but the old woman
pretended to be deaf.
We carried on through
Park Farm and home through Willesborough Dykes where the footpaths
were covered in earthworms being eaten by slugs. I never knew slugs
ate earthworms.
Having stopped off at
Pets at Home (someone got a bone for being good) we came home.
I'd chosen not to go
round the countryside today because it would be too wet. Today's walk
was all on tarmac paths but even so "Furry Face TM"
still came home wet and filthy. He had a quick hose-off and then he
set about his bone as I had lunch whist watching theis week's episode
of "The Last Ship".
Much as I quite like the
show it has occurred to me that the baddies could comprehensively
stuff our heroes by stopping doing all their baddying on the coast
and by moving inland.
I then started making a
Wherigo based on Dungeons and
Dragons. After four hours of effort I had two minutes of game play
programmed, and then the clans gathered in Somerset Road. Nooo-gar
(not nougat)
was scoffed and we watched the exploits of Captain Kirk; ably
assisted by Mr Leslie. Mr Leslie is a much under-rated Star Trekker.
And once home we caught
up on the episode of Bake Off from two weeks ago.
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